Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 276, 27 September 1913 — Page 58

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN -TELE GRAM, SATURDAY. SEPT. 27. 1913 APPOINTS AGENTS ON CENSUS BUREAU W. J. Harris, Director, Wants Better Organization and Administration. Interior View of ihe Uniou Store INDIANS OBSERVE "HEAPJOOO TIME" Visitors to Shan Kive See Native Red Men in Tribal Conditions.

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 27. William J. Harris, director of the census, recently-appointed Hon. William R. Merriam, ex-governor of Minnesota, and Hon. S. N. D. North, both former directors of the census. Professor Walter F. Wilcox, of Cornell univereity, and Mr. W. S. Rossiter, formerly chief clerk of the census, as special agents of the bureau to make studies of tr.e present condition of statistical work, including particularly the unfinished work of the thirteenth census and plans for the better organization and admiistration of the bureau in connection with its future operations. Daniel C. Roper, first assistant postmaster general, and formerly an official of the Census bureau, was called in as an advisor. These men have been on duty at the Bureau for several days and have been making inquiry and studies concerning the various problems assigned to them. It Immediately became evident to these investigators that the problems before them in the Bureau should be treated In two separate divisions: First, and most pressing, the disposition of the much delayed work of the thirteenth census, and second, the plan for the future conduct of the bureau. The Investigations thus far have been directed at the first division of he problem, namely, the overhanging work of the thirteenth census, and reommendations to the following effect, embodying the findings of these agents have been submitted to the director of the census. The following recommendations have been submitted: 1. That it is undesirable to tabulate occupations further than already done. Stopping such unnecessary further work will expedite the publication by about six months and will reduce the cost of finishing that branch of the work by about $65,000; the tables already prepared should be printed without additional derivative tables or explanatory test. These tables give the number of persons of each sex in each occupation, and classify them by race, nativity, and parent nativity, and five age periods, so that the publication of the primary classification or occupational data as reported at previous censuses is thus assured. 2. That the report upon native tongues be limited to the chapter to appear in the forthcoming final volume on population.

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3. That the numerous tables relating to mines and quarries now in the form of printed bulletins, proofs, or manuscript be sent to the public printer at once, the same to constitute the final reports on mines and quaries and that no further tabulations or text be prepared in connection with that particular repart. 4. That the tables for the benevolent institutions, and for the institutional population namely, prisoners insane and feeble-minded, and paupers be prepared and published without further percentage or other derivative tables and without explanatory text. 5. That the annual complication of the statistics of forest products be abandoned ; since there appears to be no authority of law for an annual inquiry of this character, which the records show to have cost from $20,000 to $40,000 a year. 6. That the annual report on the financial statistics of cities for 1912 be completed and published by January 1, 1914, by curtailing the amount of detail to be included; that the schedules and report for 1913 be similarly curtailed; that the reports for the years 1912 and 1913 be printed without text, except such as is necessary for explanation and definition; and that until these annual reports are brought up to date, no further attempt be made to elaborate the reports on municipal financial statistics. This recommendation is based on the fact that delay in the compilation and publication of the annual municipal reports detracts seriously from their value. 7. That the reports on mortality statistics for the years 1911 and 1912

be published before the close of the present calander year. To make this possible the explanatory text of these reports should be reduced to a minimum, the tables condensed, and no effort made to publish a report on births until the mortality reports are published. 8. That work upon the standardization of death rates, life tables, and occupational morality be suspended until the above reports have been published. There is no reason why the morality report for each year should not be compiled and published prior to the close of the suceeding calendar year. 9. That in view of the emergency presented by the delay in completeing thirteenth census, the director request the secretary of commerce to lay the matter before the president with the view of securing his instructions to the public printer to give precedence so far as practicable to the remaining publications of the thirteenth census and the long overdue annual report. Director Harris states that the recommendations of the special agents will be followed by him and the census reports given to the public without further unnecessary delay. He also expresses the hope and belief that the studies of these former officials of the Bureau will result in a great improvement in the quantity and quality of the census work, accelerate the production of results, and efect a material reduction of expenditures, while at the same time preserving all valuable data collected for the thirteenth census.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Sept. 27-. Visitors to the Indian Sham Kive. which means "heap ggod time," had an opportunity to see ihe native red men In their tribal conditions. The events opened with a modified marathon race through the 6treets of Colarado Springs, finishing at the San Kive grounds, in the Garden of the Gods, a distance of 10 2-5 miles. The most picturesque event of the early place tonight when a. body of Ute Indians will dance amid the rocks of the Garden of the Gods the scene being illuminated by vari-colored searchlights. The Roman consolidate carnival circus will also be started tonight. Tomorrow there will be a grand parade of Indians, cowboys, pioneer and the Roman cirucus through the streets of Colarado Springs, followed in the afternoon by "Frontier Day Sports," at the Sham Kive grounds, with bronco busting for the $350 Seitzler saddle, made at Silver City, said to be the finest saddle in the entire world. The name Seitzler means everything to a western cowboy.

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SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 27. A ballroom floor ret on springs, effecting a "live" footing for terpsichorean effects, is being installed in the $2,000,000 Davenport hotel being built by Spokane capitalists. The ballroom on springs is the last word in building construction, and is said to lend a buoyancy and exhilaration to dancing that is impossible on the ordinary "dead" floor. The floor is suspended on resilient steel cables, made of a special steel, and the general principle is along the line of the suspension bridge. The floor is perfectly smooth and rigid, but under the rhythmic motions of the dancers gradually adapts itself to the movements and sways slightly, but quite noticeably, with a mild, dreamy ocean wave effect. The "live" floor hase been used slightly in some parts of the east in private ball rooms, but so far as known in Spokane never on so lafge a scale as planned at the Davenport hotel.

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